The Way We Work: Culture, Communication, and Containers

Is it possible to completely rethink the way we work? What happens if you combine a highly experienced team, a new company and DevOps principles? We would like to share how DRUD was founded on these ideas and how we continue to integrate our philosophy of work into our daily flow.

You will come away with an understanding of how you might use these principles to shape the flow of work in your web development agency. With a modern development workflow, enabling a fast flow of work, constantly reducing inefficiencies and removing bottlenecks in our toolchain, we can all deliver value to our customers:

• As fast as possible
• As often as possible
• As routinely as possible
• As non-disruptively as possible

We’ll discuss implementing DevOps philosophies and best practices from development to testing to deployment:

• Development: Why enabling on-demand creation of dev, test, and production environments increases the flow of work from development to customer
• Testing: How breaking things builds resiliency. How fast feedback is key to continuous learning.
• Deployment: Why we need to work in production-like environments. How to enable low-risk releases to increase the flow of the value stream.

In this session, we will show you the tools that make all that possible in our workflow. But keep in mind the tools are only hunks of code. We’ll also show you the real key to our effectiveness: a human-centric culture backed up by a framework of documented processes that we find critical to making the most of some good tools. 

In telling our story, we hope to inspire and help you support excellence in your team culture by building stability and quality into your daily workflow and agency philosophy.